Three years after 6,470 Yazidi women were abducted by ISIS on Sinjar mountain in 2014, a reported 3,410 are still missing. The New York Times has been documenting the stories of escapees, who have been held in what reporter Rukmini Callimachi described as “a detailed bureaucracy of sex slavery, including sales…

It is a truth universally acknowledged that Holocaust comparisons are almost never appropriate—or, at least, it should be. And yet, presumably in an effort to emphasize dire circumstances, Pope Francis recently referred to European refugee camps as “concentration camps.”

In the New Yorker, Rachel Aviv has written about “resignation syndrome,” an affliction specific to immigrant children in Sweden who essentially and physically lost the will to live upon being told they will be deported. It’s a profoundly heartbreaking story that illustrates the true human cost of denying asylum to…

The conditions at the makeshift refugee camp at Piraeus Port in Athens were bad in any weather. Torn, battered camping tents arranged under highway flyovers, on a stretch of concrete and in a massive, abandoned stone warehouse. Three rows of port-a-potties available for more than 2,000 people. Lines for…

As Trump’s new Muslim ban wreaks havoc across the world, here’s some real talk (and a history lesson) from South African politician and chair of the Commission of the African Union Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma: “The very country to which many of our people were taken as slaves during the transatlantic slave trade has now…

In response to Donald Trump and Steve Bannon’s recent executive order that bans anyone with residency in one of seven predominantly Muslim countries—even if they have a green card or visa, and including refugees from the horrific humanitarian crisis in Syria—sympathetic Americans have responded by coming out to…

LOS ANGELES INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT—It was hard to not feel enthusiastic when I first arrived Sunday at Los Angeles International Airport, although that feeling would wane by the time I left, replaced by a quote from one woman who had been reunited with her sister after five hours of detainment: “I don’t believe I’m in…

The xenophobic, Islamophobic travel ban introduced this weekend was implemented hastily, with seemingly little forethought. And in the midst of the fear and chaos, it became clear that no provision had been made for U.S. permanent residents, aka green-card holders. After much bumbling, Department of Homeland Security…

Customs and Border Protection officials at Dulles airport outside Washington, D.C. refused on Sunday to allow immigration attorneys to meet with their detained clients. CBP officials also refused to allow four members of Congress into the “secondary inspection” area, where the detainees were being held.

On Friday night, Donald Trump signed an executive order arbitrarily banning arrivals from a swath of majority-Muslim countries, to cataclysmic effect. The heroic lawyers at the ACLU and elsewhere worked long into the night to grant those detained a temporary stay, but dozens of people remain trapped at airports around…

Sharbat Gula, the young Afghan girl featured on a 1985 National Geographic cover, was arrested today in Pakistan on charges of fraudulently obtaining national identity cards for herself and her family.

Last year, in a pretty obvious jab at undocumented immigrants, Louisiana overhauled their marriage laws to make it impossible to get married in the state without a birth certificate. As you might expect, the law is also harming legal immigrants, particularly refugees, who don’t have birth certificates and can’t return…

On a dark night in northern France near the English channel, a Polish truck driver is doing his normal run. Sigala’s “Give Me Your Love” blares out of the stereo. Out of the darkness, what looks to be a massive tree branch is strewn across the road, and it’s surrounded by men holding what look like weapons. It looks…

Code Pink, the women-led anti-war grassroots organization, has descended upon the Republican National Convention, staging protests and voicing their opposition to the militaristic and anti-refugee rhetoric so pervasive amongst the GOP.

Home Secretary Theresa May is expected to replace British Prime Minister David Cameron after the only other remaining Conservative candidate, Andrea Leadsom, withdrew on Monday. Theresa May will be the UK’s first woman Prime Minister since Margaret Thatcher.